Collateral Damage ▻ Riverdale [1]

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  CHAPTER FIVE

  During their lunch period, Sweet Pea, Queenie, Jughead, Fangs, Toni, and Mandy found themselves in the recreational room after hearing Queenie's suggestion. Soon enough, Kevin arrived and took a seat beside Queenie, who had Sweet Pea sitting on the other side of her. Jughead sat to their right while Fangs and Toni sat across from them in chairs. Mandy also sat on the arm of Toni's chair, not bothering to find another seat.

   "I don't think we've properly met," Veronica spoke up as she entered the room at the same time as Josie, who stood off to the side, "Veronica Lodge." She introduced herself to Toni, who stared up at her.               

   Veronica held out her hand for Toni to shake as Jughead began to speak up, "Of the Park Avenue Lodges," Jughead commented sarcastically as he ate a single chip from his bag while lifting up his pinky.

  Toni glanced at Jughead, rolling her eyes before looking back at Veronica as she shook her hand, "Toni. Topaz."

    Veronica's eyes lit up at Toni's last name, "Oh! Like the purple colored gemstone. Love it." She replied, causing Toni to laugh slightly.

  "And I'm Josie McCoy," Josie spoke up, introducing herself, "Formerly of the Pussycats...Now, just Josie." She looked down at the ground after finishing her sentence, feeling a bit embarrassed, "And this is Kevin." She said as she pointed her hand in the direction of the Keller boy.

  Kevin's eyes seemed to be locked on Fangs, causing Queenie to laugh slightly, "What's your name?" Kevin asked him curiously.

  "Fogarty," Fangs replied, twisting around the twizzler that was in his hand, "But you can call me Fangs. You're last name's Keller, right?"

  "How did you know that?" Kevin questioned curiously.

   "Joaquin and I used to hang out," He answered and both Mandy and Queenie stared down at the ground after the mention of their best friend, "He talked about you all the time." 

    The two boys stared at each other for a moment until their moment was ruined by Principal Weatherbee, "You, guys!" He shouted, gaining everybody's attention, "Yes, you! Come with me. Now!"

  The group of teenagers had the same confused look on their faces as they followed their principal into the hallway. Queenie was the first look down at the ground and see the green snake spray painted on the top of Riverdale High's school seal. She looked back up to see Reggie standing in front of it, a satisfied smirk on his face as he stood there with his arms crossed. A couple other Bulldogs stood around them and Queenie instantly knew that they were the ones who graffitied the floor in hopes of the Serpents getting blamed.

   "Which of you defaced our school seal with this graffiti?" Weatherbee questioned, seeming angered by it.

  "This is what they do, Principal Weatherbee," Reggie added in as he pointed his hand in the direction of the green rattlesnake spray painted on the floor, "They tag their turf."

   "My, God, Reggie, can you be any more transparent?" Veronica questioned and Reggie nodded his head slowly.

  "Effective immediately, no gang behavior of any kind will be tolerated in my school. As of this moment, no more Serpent jackets" He announced and Queenie gave him an angry look.

  "What!" They all asked in unison.

  "No more Serpent jackets!" Weatherbee shouted over them, "All tattoos need to be covered. Possession of any gang paraphernalia whatsoever will lead to immediate suspension. Are we clear?" He demanded and they stayed quiet.

  As they went to walk away, Weatherbee spoke up, "And if nobody fesses up in doing this, you will all have a month's detention." He warned them and all the Serpents frowned.

    "What!" They all yelled, knowing they weren't even the ones who did it.

    Queenie turned her head to see Reggie smirking. He knew this was going to happen and planned it, knowing that no one was going to fess up because they didn't do it and that meant they would all get in trouble.

   She let out a sigh, shutting her eyes for a moment before opening them back up again, "I did it," Queenie spoke up and all eyes were on her within seconds.

    "What? Queenie, you were with--" Jughead began to argue, but Queenie kicked him to shut him up.

   "I did it. I did it during lunch when everyone was in either the cafeteria or the rec room. Just when I was finishing, Reggie was walking over so I fled and went to sit with my friends at lunch." She explained and everyone was shocked, especially Reggie.

   "My office, now, Miss Jones," Weatherbee demanded sternly and Queenie smirked as she held her hands up.

   "With pleasure," She replied before following him there.

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  "What has gotten into you!" Weatherbee complained as he sat at his desk with Queenie sitting across from him, "Last year, you were one of our brightest and never got into any trouble."

    Queenie scoffed loudly at this, crossing her arms as she glared at her principal, "Excuse me? Never got into any trouble? What do you mean? I got expelled for punching Riverdale High's music teacher after kicking Reggie Mantle ass," She told him with attitude.

   "Language," He warned her and Queenie just rolled her eyes.

     "What is it going to be, Principal Weather? Detentions? Suspension? Ooh, maybe expulsion?" She questioned with a smirk.

     Weatherbee decided to ignore her mocking and sighed, "I'm going to let you have two weeks of detention because it's your first day. Next time, it will be a suspension." He informed her calmly, "That is all."

  Queenie smirked in satisfaction as she got up from her seat and left the principal's office to find all of her friends waiting for her. They were all asking questions at the same time, which made Queenie's head feel like it was going to explode.

   
  "What happened in there?"

"What did you take the blame?"

 "Dude, you were with us the whole time you were never even in the hallway?"

"Did he expel you?"

"What made you be dumb enough to take the blame?"

    Queenie groaned in annoyance, "I took the blame to get you all out of trouble and no, I didn't get expelled, I got two weeks of detention, that's all." She informed them with a smile before she began to walk off.

   "Where the hell are you going?" Sweet Pea asked his girlfriend, the only one who seemed to be able to keep up with her.

     Queenie walked in the direction of Reggie Mantle, who was standing with a couple of his friend, "What the hell was that!" Queenie asked him angrily and Reggie smirked.

  "What was what?" He asked her, acting as if he didn't know.